Bushcraft Kitchen Part 1

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morning gosh Dave Canterbury the Pathfinder school out here at the base camp area of the Pathfinder school I just kind of cleaned up this fire pit and dug it back out I haven't been use much this summer this is more of a wintertime camp but it could be used in the summer just as easy only big and airy for that I just haven't had a chance to use it much so I thought what I do is come out here today and revamp a few things you know the beauty of bushcraft is and the lure of bushcraft is being able to do things with what's around you with very simple kit items to help you make sustainable items that will further comfort you and make things easier and one of those things that is very easy to make are different types of cooking systems to cook in the bush and we've got a large fire pin here with a keyhole in front of it where we can pull coals in to cook over the top we have a fire reflector built on the back of this thing that's covered with earth on the backside to further insulate it and then we need to set ourselves up some simple cooking devices along with this to make it easier for us to cook here in the bush or at our personal space or our personal shelter or whatever the case may be so I'm going to show you a couple real quick pot suspension systems and cook systems that you can use that will help make your life a little bit easier but you can make all this stuff a natural material will use Bank line for our core just but you could use natural cordage if you needed to in a pinch the thing is is a lot of these things are going to keep you from having to carry metal objects now you might want to carry a small metal grate of some kind just a shelf out of a refrigerator from a junkyard works really really good for that you'll usually sit flat in the back of your pack somewhere where it's not really an inconvenience they probably weigh less than a pound but you can lay something like that over the top of this key hole right here maybe a couple logs across it pull coals into that key hole and then you can cook on top of that grate and that makes a really really good system without carrying a whole bunch of stuff and then all of your pot suspension systems and things like that can all be made out of sticks your tripods your hooks all those things to be made of sticks now so we're going to talk about today stay with me okay so I've got myself three sticks of equal length taller than myself they're about six and a half feet long not sure exactly what would they are really doesn't matter as long as they're good hard wooden or green one of them is obviously oak the other two are probably maple but they're good and green and that's what counts I cut those down I've got them laying on my back stop I'm going to use that to lash my tripod so I'll go ahead and get close-up I've done lashings before on tripods and things like that but I'm going to go ahead and lash this tripod on video so you guys can see that one more time now the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to start off with what's called a timber hitch and there's complicated ways to tie a timber hitch but the easiest thing to do is just to take yourself about a four inch lead on that bank line a byte in that bank line and just twist it over four or five times just like this and again this is where this bank line really shines is that it bites against itself really well and then just take that and wrap it over put the whole line through that loop as if you were making like a noose of a snare or something like that and pull all of that cordage straight through there what's going to happen when you're done doing that is it's going to bind on itself really well you can see I can't pull that undone so that gives me my initial timber hitch knot then I'll just lay that tag in there where I'm going to wrap anyway and I want these to be pretty tight so these initial wraps I want them to be pretty good and secure so I'll wrap a couple of times on here maybe three wraps and I'll pull it pretty hard in my hand as I go but when I get to that third wrap I want to toggle to pull on now I use my knife for that because this knife just happens to have this little handy package carrier on it that works real good just wrap it three or four times you can really give that stuff a good tighten yank now you don't want to let those roll over and come together when you do that

you want to keep it as even as even in need as you can it will last a lot longer for you in the end that way they're trying to spread out on me on the other end that's okay I want to keep that just as flat as I can but as tight as I can get it without letting it roll okay once I've done that then I'm going to go ahead and take this wrapping off my hook and set it aside and I'm going to wrap three more wraps around out keeping those pretty even and pretty tight so that I'll have when I'm done I'll have six wraps on here and if you've got a big long tag and you're trying to follow that around it's kind of a pain better off you can bundle that cordage up a little bit and then on that last one I'm going to do the same thing I'm going to wrap it around my t-handle a few times and just give it a good yank again I got to make sure that that stuff doesn't bundle up on me okay now that I've got those six wraps on there now I'm going to do what's called my frapping which means I'm going to wrap in between those lines and we'll step down the fire pit here and what I'm going to do is I'm going to come around and come up through and I'll just kind of spread this out for a minute to come up through it then I'm going to tuck this back down in here just like this nice and tight pulling I'm going to come around that hole last just like this and I'm going to do that six times as well so there's two and when I get to the third one again when I get to that third wrap around back it I toggle again for a good yank get that trapping really nice and tight and then I'll wrap three more in and you can see it's pulling together just a little bit right now that's not going to hurt anything if it was bunched up in a big wad then I'd worry more about it okay so this should be my sixth wrap right here and again every three I'm back to this toggle again wrapping it up and pulling tight just like that and then come off of this pretty easy well I like to use it now what I'm going to do is I'm just going to come under this other one the center one spread this out just a little bit to get it in there just like that and then I'm going to put six wraps on this last one and these are going to be a little tougher to get in there because it's starting to get really tight now so I may have to turn it on side a little bit like that which is no big deal to pull those wraps in okay so that's going to give us a tripod that all we have to do a spread that thing out and when you spread this out those lashings are going to tighten up on themselves so when I spread this tripod out it's going to force those lashings tight just like that and what you really want when you make a tripod like this is you want something that you can spread that tripod out and lean your body weight on it and it's not going to break that's a good tripod this sticks a little bit weak compared to the other two but it will work just fine now I've got this line hanging down in here and there's a reason I left that there okay so now we've got our piece of string hanging down in the middle of our tripod now I'm a big fan of toggles and notches if you understand simple lashings toggles and notches you can get away with a ton in bushcraft so I've got just a toggle just a stick probably a quarter inch of diameter it's got a notch in the middle it's just rounded off on both ends and I just took my knife and pushed it in popped it out turn it around push it in and pop it out made a v-notch that's going to go about the level of where I would want a pot to hang if we're straight over the fire so I'm going to take my line I've got left hanging down there and I'm going to wrap it around once and I'm going to half hitch it on one side and then I'm going to come around the other now fetch it to create that clove hitch style not in there just like that that's not going to slip now if I hang that down remove this try to this camera little few guys now if that's hanging down I can put a pot on that well I can put a hook on that I've just cut this piece out of a tree and this is going to be my multifunctional pot hook and I want to be able to use this in different places so what I'm going to do is I'm going to take another piece of this bank line I'm going to cut a couple notches again I'm going to notch this piece of wood very simple I'm just going to score a line around it by putting my thumb to the outside and twisting the piece of wood just like this to score a line then I'm going to come back up and pop that notch out all the way around just like that pushing out my thumb keeping it under control

good knife safety is key probably the biggest injury we get and the basic classes are self induced knife injuries keeping that away from my body okay so once I've notched that I just tied a bowline knot on the end of that cord that was big enough to go through the loop I made that loop big enough I could pull the not only through it and that becomes my hook now all I'm going to do on this end is just tie another bowline and that is going to go on my toggle okay so once I've got that second bowline knot tied on here now I can take this toggle and just run it through here and it's going to hold that hook if I want to use that hook for something else it's real easy to get off of there okay so once I've got that toggle tied in there I can cut this cord a little bit so what I do is I'll just cut off enough that I've got enough to tail there just a tiny knot in I'll use that for something else but I'll just tie a knot in this tail and that's just going to keep it if it does start to slip through that clove hitch a little bit and knot will stop it from going any further that's not a necessary thing it's just something I do when I'm setting something up like this now the width or the length of this toggle is really going to dictate what you can hang over this fire if you're just going to use the toggle what I mean by that is if I have a pot the size of this one then I can put this toggle through and it's long enough that it won't slip through the bail then I can hang my pot completely off of that toggle and not worry about it so if I had a bigger pot like let's say this one then I'm going to have to have a bigger toggle because that thing will probably eventually something will happen it will slip off there you're getting it with your pot in the fire so you're going to want this thing you know a few inches longer so there's no way that could happen now if you wanted to you could just use a hook and if we take our hook that we made it's got our loop on the end of it we can just put that right through our toggle just like this and it's not going to come off of there then we can hang our bigger pot from that hook and our adjustment comes from the top

we have plenty of lineup here that we can just take and go over this tripod one too how many wraps we need to get that pot the height we wanted off the fire and it's not going to be a big deal then with that hook it's not going to come off of there so I can use either option they'll both work one's a little bit more work than the other one but they both work fine so I'm just trying to show you some different options that you can do with a tripod to hang a pot over okay for this setup I'm going to make a stake basically I've just sharpened one in I've cut a notch in on this end you can cut that in with a sawed off your multi-tool or you can just work it in with your knife and then I'm just cutting back into that notch just like this to make sure I've got a fairly deep notch there that's kind of a three-quarter notch it kind of goes 3/4 away around the wood and once we get that all we're going to do is we're going to create a loop from one of our spare pieces of Bank line for that and we're going to again we're just going to take it and lash it on there a couple times just a good clove hitch on there with a bowline on this end that's big enough to go around another stick and I'll say what we're going to use that for in just a minute okay so let me show you real quickly a real easy way to tie a clove hitch type knot with the security knot is what I usually use what you're going to do is going to take two wraps around the object that you want to wrap up and you've got an X right there when you do that when you bring that second loop around what you're going to do is you're going to take that tag in and you're going to put it right through the middle of that X just like this so you've got an X right there and that lines going through it when you pull that up tight it's going to create that clove hitch knot and it's not going to come undone very easy especially with this Bank line it's going to be a pretty tight self tightening knot if you want to put a knot in this end right here in this tag just to keep it from slipping a security knot when it gets into here it's going to bite there's no way that's going to slip unless you put a lot of pressure on it then I like to pull that knot around just to the side a little bit just like that and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to tie another loop in this end and that could be an overhand knot or if you want to get it out easy it could be a bowline knot okay so now I'm taking a longer stick and I just cut a notch in and basically I just put two saw blades in there I've sought it once twice about a quarter inch apart use my saw blade to pop that out of there and give myself a good wide notch in there for my pot sitting okay so now we're going to do is we come to the backside of our back stop and hang this over the top and we could use a fork right here if we didn't have this backstop we could put a fork in the ground right here get that right or not just like we want it just like that now we can take this other stake and all we're going to do is attach it here and pound it in at an and that's going to adjust the height of our pot depending on where we put that on a state so if we found that staking at a 45 degree angle so it's not going to come out then we can put this anywhere we want to now bear in mind that we don't have any liquid in that pot so there's not much weight there to counterbalance it so right now the waste mostly to the back but if we have weight in that pot it would be pulling down on this and levering down okay so let's talk about a fork stick now if we put a fork stick in the ground here and we use our knotch stick to move it forward obviously if you've got waiting there it's going to counterbalance this so that's where our state comes in with our loop on it so we put that over the fire what we're going to do is we're going to put our stake in the ground right here at an angle again an angle backwards and I've left myself enough slack that I can't adjust this rope around the stake if I need to so now I can push this out put it here and it's going to hold that pot where I want it and I can adjust in and out on this rope to get it lower to the fire or further away from the fire depending on where I need to have it to get the proper cook temperature okay real quick we cut this keyhole out we did that so we could take this cheap refrigerator shelf you can get these from scrap yards or nothing almost lay that thing right over top of that pour out coals in there and that gives us the ability to pan fry at that point very easily and control the heat this thing doesn't hardly weigh anything you can put this in the back of your pack it's really good in the Duluth bushcraft pack right behind that garbage can sits right down beside that no problem or in the front of it it's almost exactly the same height that's why I chose it but it gives me the ability at that point now to raise my food up off the fire to cook with a pan very very easily if I'm using a regular fire I can just put a couple sticks on the ground and sets on top of it above the fire it's a really really good option for you to think about carrying in your longer-term stuff or if you're going to be our bushcraft and camping

quite a bit I really like it so between this and the tripod and the suspension system for the pots you can put a couple different pots on the fire a paint on the fire and you can do a lot of cooking really quick with a really simple system just like this guys I really appreciate you joining me I have another video today at the Pathfinder school I appreciate everything for me for my school for my family for all my friends affiliates and sponsors I'll be back with another video soon as I can thanks guys

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